Theodor Liebknecht
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Theodor Liebknecht (19 April 1870 - 6 January 1948) was a German socialist politician.
[edit] Biography
Born in Leipzig in 1870 as the son of Wilhelm Liebknecht and the brother of Karl Liebknecht, Theodor Liebknecht studied law and worked as a lawyer in Berlin from 1899 on, becoming politically active after his brother's murder in January 1919.
Liebknecht was a member of the USPD; opposed to the merger with the KPD and the joining of the Komintern but also to the reunification of the party with the SPD, he continued the USPD as an independent party with Georg Ledebour until its merger into the Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (SAPD, "Socialist Worker's Party of Germany") in 1931. In 1924, he was involved in the split of the Sozialistischer Bund together with Georg Ledebour.
A right-wing member of the SAPD, he was opposed to the introduction of Leninist schemes of organization into the party; following the Nazi rise to power, he emigrated to Basel, Switzerland in 1933 and was later employed by the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam from 1936 to 1939. He was a supporter of the 2½ International.
Liebknecht died in Altendorf, near Hanover, Germany, in 1948.
| Chairmen of the USPD (1917–1931) |
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| Hugo Haase/Georg Ledebour (April 1917-March 1919) | Arthur Crispien/Hugo Haase (March 1919-November 1919) | Arthur Crispien/Ernst Däumig (November 1919-October 1920) | Arthur Crispien/Georg Ledebour (October 1920-January 1922, Right faction) | Ernst Däumig/Adolph Hoffmann (October 1920-December 1920, Left faction) | Arthur Crispien/Wilhelm Dittmann/Georg Ledebour (January 1922-October 1922) | Georg Ledebour/Theodor Liebknecht (October 1922-End of 1923) | Theodor Liebknecht/Elsa Wiegmann (End of 1923-November 1931) |
